Drug Trafficking Flashcards
1
Q
What is drug trafficking?
A
Smuggling illegal drugs across borders
2
Q
Where does most of the worlds cocaine come from?
A
South America
3
Q
Social effects
A
Thousands died from effects of drugs/ gang violence
Many living in poverty forced to crime, violence and drug trafficking
4
Q
Where does it go from there
A
West Africa, then to Europe
5
Q
Environmental effects
A
Deforestation in order to grow the drugs
6
Q
Economic Effects
A
1.5 trillion spent on war drugs
7
Q
What is a drug mule
A
A person who is often paid to smuggle drugs across borders by concealing them in their body
